The Poop’s 1,000th post!

We’re big fans of meaningless milestones. Because of budget cutbacks, we won’t be renting the Getty Mansion and eating from giant cauldrons of shrimp like I had originally planned for this, our landmark 1,000th post. But I thought we could use this space to let the readers make suggestions. I can also use the comments to answer any lingering questions about the blog. (There’s no way this ends well …)

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A few things before we get started:

– I know that our bios and blogroll are woefully out of date. This is entirely my fault at this point. The SFGate people have offered to fix it, I just need to find the time to help them do it.

– Go ahead and say which writers you’d like to see more of, but please don’t go all junior high school and say mean things about any of our individual contributors. (You can say all the mean things about me that you want.)

– The Jim Beam is in a safe place, and will be “taste-tested” at a future Poop event. (A meet-up at Rancho Siempre Verde probably would have been perfect, but, you know, Christmas is over. We’ll discuss a good meeting place in a future post.)

– If you’re a lurker, now would be a great time to register and start commenting. It’s fun!

We’ve been including more Bay Area nostalgia and pop culture nonsense in the last year and a half, and I don’t expect this is going to change very much. These posts tend to do better on the page views front, they’re appealing to the non-parents out there (non-scientific evidence proves that we have a surprisingly large number of readers without kids) and quite honestly they’re often more fun to write. So you probably haven’t seen the last UFC live blog.

That being said, it would be very helpful to read what you would like to see more or less of on The Poop. Do you want more useful stuff like Broke Guy Day Care? Do you want the occasional post that actually tackles a serious issue? Should we bring back the Judgmental Parent Roundtable? Should we do more interviews with interesting local parents? Should we forget about parenting altogether and just blog full-time about the Snuggie?